The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 32

Let them bind me as fast as they will, I can always break loose, and return to the forest and freedom.”

Who acts: you, ropes, I · What happens: let, bind, break, return · To what, where: ropes, me

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ropes, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	bind	bind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 bind	obj
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 bind	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 will	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 will	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fast	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 break	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 break	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 break	aux
13	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 break	advmod
14	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	advcl
15	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 break	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 return	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 return	cc
18	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 forest	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 forest	det
21	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 return	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 freedom	cc
23	freedom	freedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 forest	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	ropes = rope		tree rules
2	bind	infinitive	ropes = rope not said here	me	fast property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3	break	can	I		always, loose property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	return	infinitive			to the forest and freedom result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to forest=Result

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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